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LOUP (ITT NORTHWESTERN (JEO. E. HEM8HCOTER, Edl»«r «n«l Pnh. UOVP CITY, - * NEBRASKA. Honest, nett, how ntnv times have you slipped down since the snow came? There are so many celebrities now adays that it is more distinguished not to be one. A sharp advauee in price invariably brings enough corn from Iowa to blockade the railroads. A Chicago man says that $10 should start a person housekeeping. So it would—poorhouse-keeping. It Is always better to tell the truth when you can get anybody to under stand your understanding of it. Other nations are prepared to adopt any plan the United States may formu late for suppressing the anarchists. Prince Henry of Holland Is wisely doing the Br'er Rabbit act. lest the ex citable element pull his title to pieces. All our best mistletoe is imported from England, but the native Amer ican kiss is good enough beneath the branch. The boundary question between Chile and iiigentina, which is simmer ing away, will probably not reach the boiling point. Emperor Kwang Su and Empress Dowager Tsl An have struck a gait at Pekin that is bound to produce a famine In yellow calico. The emperor of Germany has again assured his soldiers that he will per sonally lead them In battle. He has not picked out the victim. Full returns from the Cuban elections will not be in before the end of .Jan uary. Cuba would save herself trouble by putting in voting machines. St. Paul and Minneapolis are called “The Twin Cities.” They love each other so fervently that neither will build in the direction of the other. There is amusement in London over our talk of sending congressmen to witness the coronation. Englishmen never will understand American hu mor. Fourteen hundred and sixty-two cook stoves are on the wray to Kitch ener. This is irrefutable evidence that the British no longer eat their cap tives raw. It costs $80,000 for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange now. Still, lots of chaps have paid that amount for a seat at the poker table in moro than one instance. Let it be understood once and for all that the president's refusal to be indiscriminately pump-handled is no reflection upon anybody's moral worth or social standing. Speaking of the Monroe doctrine some day our South American neigh hors will be big enough, cool enough and united enough to assist materially in its enforcement. Scientists have discovered that some germs deliberately commit suicide when they are brought Into contact with water. They must be the Weary Willies of the germ world. King Edward nas bestowed medals on the muledrivers in South Africa. The man who can successfully drive a Missouri mule that has made up its mind to tarry a while deserves a medal. It is calculated that a baby boy’s chance of being president of the United States is one in 30,000,000. And it may be added that in most cases the chance grows beautifully less the older the baby gets. The old conundrum as to the beet selling book of the year is being pro pounded again, and, as usual, the greal majority of those why try to guess it forget to notice that it is the Holy Bible, as usual. Mrs. Sarah Williams of Detroit was lately married to the spirit of Theo dore Comstock, an English chemist, who flourished 500 years ago. You can get married to any old thing you like in merry Michigan. The president of Iowa university be lieves that church congregations should adopt the practice of applaud ing sermons which they like. The president does not recommend the catcall for sermons which they do not like. __ _ Prospectors for oil in the heart of the famous Valley of Death, extending from Oklahoma nearly to California, have tapped an artesian well of pure water sufficient in volume, accoruing to report, to irrigate thousands of acres of land that is now arid and useless. King Edward is desirous that all the world should know he is in the enjoy ment of the be6t of health. All the world will be glad to know that he is and that he feels well enough to be provoked when anybody intimates that be isn't TALMAGE’S SERMON. MIRACLE OF THE AX HEAD WHICH FLOATED AT ELISHA'S COMMAND. Nature'* Law* Suspended to Show the rover of God—Example* of Notable Conversion* Strange as the Text “The Iron Did Swim.*' (Copyright, 1902. by Ixtuis Kloprch, N. Y.) Washington. Jan. 19.—In this dis course Dr. Talmage makes practical use of an occurrence in the orient which has seldom attracted particular attention; text, II Kings, vi, 6, “The iron did swim.” A theological seminary in the valley of palms, near the river Jordan, had become so popular in the time of Elisha, the prophet, that more accom modations were needed for the stu dents. The classrooms and the dor mitories must be enlarged or an en tirely new building constructed. What will they do? Will they send up to Jerusalem and solicit contributions for this undertaking? Having raised the money, will they send for cedars of Lebanon and marble from the quar ries where Ahab got the stone for the pillars and walls of his palace? No; the students propose to build it them selves. All they ask is that Elisha, their professor and prophet, go along with them to the woods and boss the job. They start for the work, Elisha and his students. Plenty of lumber in those regions along the Jordan. The sycamores are attacked by Eli sha’s students, for they must have lumber for the new theological sem inary. Crash goes one of the trees and another and auother. But some thing now happens so wonderful that the occurrence will tax the credulity or rne ages, so wonaemu uihi many still think it never happened at all. One of the students, not able to own an ax, had borrowed one. You must remember that while the ax of the olden time was much like our modern ax, it differed In the fact that instead of the helve or handle being thrust into a socket in the iron head the head of the ax was fastened on the handle by a leathern thong, and so it might slip the helve. A student of the sem inary was swinging his ax against one of those trees, and the ax head and the handle parted. Being near the river side, the ax head dropped into the river and sank to the muddy bottom. Great was the student's dismay. If it had been his own ax, it would have been bad enough, but the ax did not belong to him. He had no means to buy another for the kind man who had loaned it to him. but God helps the helpless, and he generally helps through some good and sympathetic soul, and in this case it was Elisha, who was in the woods and on the riv er bank at the time. He did not see the ax head fly off, and so he asked the student where it dropped. He was shown the place where it went down into the river. Then Elisha broke off a branch of a tree and threw it into the water, and the ax head rose from the depths of the river and floated to the bank, so that the student had just to stoop down and take up the re stored property. Now you see the meaning of my text. "The iron did swim." Suppose a hundred years ago some one had told people that the time would come when hundreds of thou sands of tons of iron would float on the Atlantic and Pacific—iron ships from New York to Southampton, from London to Calcutta, from San Fran cisco to Canton. The man making such a prophecy would have been sent to an asylum or carefully watched as incompetent to go alone. We have all in our day seen iron swim. Now, if man ran make hundreds of tons of metal float. I am disposed to think that the Almighty could make an ax head float. “What," says some one. “would be the use of such a miracle?” Of vast, of infinite, of eternal importance. Those students were preparing for the ministry. They had joined the theolog ical seminary to get all its advantages. They needed to have their faith strengthened; they needed to be per sua led that God can do everything; they needed to learn that God takes notice of little things; that there is no emergency of life where he is not will ing to help. I hear from different sources that there is a great deal of infidelity in some of the theological seminaries of our day. We think that most of the so-called miracles of the Old and the New Testaments were wrought by nat ural causes. When those infidels grad uate from the theological seminary and take the pulpits of America as expounders of the Holy Scriptures, what advocates they will he of that gospel for the truth of which the mar tyrs died! Would to God that some great revival of religion might sweep through all the theological seminaries of this land, confirming the faith of the coming expounders of an entire Bible! Furthermore, in that scene of the text God sanctions borrowing and sets forth the importance of returning. There are times when we have not only a right to borrow, but it is a duty to borrow. There are times when we ought to lend, for Christ in his sermon on the mount declared, “'From him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." It is right that one bor row the means of getting an education, as the young student of my text bor rowed the ax. It is right to borrow means for the forwarding of commer cial ends. We borrow time; we will borrow eternity, and that constant borrowing implies a return. For what we borrow from God we must pay hack in hearty thanks and Christian service. In im provement of ourselves and helpful j uess for others. For what we borrow In the shape of protection from good government we must pay back in pa triotic devotion. For what we borrow from our parents in their good exam ple and their hard work wrought for I us in otir journey from cradle to man hood or womanhood for all the ages to come we ought to be paying back. The hallelujahs of heaven will be returned for crucifixion agony. Furthermore, let us admire these young men of Elisha’s theological sem inary for the fact that they were earn ing their own way. Those are the kind of men who know what education is worth and know how to use it. Those students in the valley of palms by the Jordan had a physical strength and hardihood that would help them in their mental and spirit ual achievements. We who are toiling for the world's betterment need brawn as well as brain, strong bodies as well as illumined minds and consecrated souls. Let all those who toil for their edu cation remember they are especially favored, and if things go against them and the ax head should fly the helve that very hlndertnent may some time turn out advantageously, as the acci dent by the river Jordan, which seem ed to finish the young student's capac ity to help build the new seminary, resulted in a splendid demonstration of the power of Elisha's God to help any one who helps himself. No ax that w’as ever wielded has wrought sc well as that ax. the handle and head of which parted. Aoin.e, also, how uod Is superior to every law that he has made, even the strongest law of nature, the law of gravitation. What a rebuke to those who reject miracles on the ground that they are contrary to nature, as though the law were stronger than the God who made the law! Again aud again in Bible times was that law revoked. There Christ stood by his disciples on the Mount of Olives after his com ing out of the sepulcher. No ladders let down for his ascension, but his feet lift from the hill, and he goes up until the curtain of cloud drops, and he is invisible. Law of gravitation again unharnessed. Enoch, Methuselah’s father, escaping death, went up bodily and will have no need of resurrection. So will all the good who shall be still alive at the end of the world. They will not need wings. Every one of the millions of our pianet who loved and served the Lord, if then alive, will “be caught up,” as the Bible says, body as well as soul, the law of gravitation paralyzed. God mightier than any law he ever created. Oh. I like the mir acles because they show God independ ent of everything. Notice also the divine power in the backwoods. Wonderful things were done at the cities of Jericho aud Jeru salem and Babylon and Nineveh, and the great cities of our time have seen the divine power, but this miracle of my text was in the backwoods, far away from the city, in the lumber dis tricts, where the students had gone to cut timber for the new theological seminary. And if this sermon shall come, as It will come, like my other sermons for the last thirty years, with out missing a week, let me say to those far away from the house of God and in the mountain districts that my ! text shows the divine power in the backwoods. The Lord by every stream as he certainly was by the Jordan, on every mountain as surely as he was on Mount Zion, on every lake as on Ti berias, Dy every rock as by the one whose gushing waters slaked the thirst of the marching Israelites. I)o not feel lonely because your near est neighbor may be miles away, be cause the width of the continent may separate you from the place where your cradle was rocked and your fath er’s grave was dug. Take your Bible out under the trees, if the weather will permit, and after you have lis tened to the solo of a bird in the tree tops or the long meter psalm of the thunder, read those words of the Bible. wmcn II1USI na\e ueeu wrmen out 01 doors: “The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted, where the birds make their neRts; as for the stork, the fir tree3 are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies. Thou rankest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves to gether and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.” How do you like that sublime pastoral? My subject also reminds us of the importance of keeping our chief im plement for work in good order. I think that young theological student on the banks of Jordan was to blame for not examining the ax before he lifted it that day against a tree. He could in a moment have found out whether the helve and the head were firmly fastened. The simple fact was the ax was not in good order or the strongest stroke that sent the edge into the hard sycamore would not have left the implement headless. So God has given every one of us an ax with which to hew. Let us keep it in good order, having been sharpened by Bible study and strengthened by prayer. Your ax may be a pen or a type or a yardstick or a scales or a tongue which in legislative brV or business circles or Sabbath class or pulpit is to speak for God and righteousness, but fhe ax will not be worth much until it has been sharpened on the grind stone of affliction. But I have come to the foot of the Alps, which we must climb bsfore we can see the wide reach of my subject. I See In all this theiue how the impossi bilities may be turned into possibili ties. That as head was sunken in the muddiest river that could be found. The alarmed student of Elisha may I know where it went down and may dive for it, and perhaps fetch it up, but can the sunken ax head be lifted without a hand thrust deep into the mud at the bottom of the river? No, that is impossible. I admit, so far as human power is concerned, it is impossible, hut with God all things are possible. After the tree branch was thrown upon the surface of Jordan “the iron did swim.” Some one asks me, “Did you ever see iron swim?” Yes, yes; many a time. I saw a soul hardened until nothing could make it harder. All styles of sin had plied t lat soul. It was petrified as to all fine feeling. It had been hardening for thirty years. It had gone into the deepest depths. It had been given up as lost. The father had given it up. The mother, the last to do so. had given it up. Hut one day in answer to some prayer a branch of the disfolinged tree of Calvary was thrown into the dark and sullen stream, and the sunken soul respond ed to its power and rose into the light, and, to the astonishment of the church and the world, "the iron did sw'im.” I have seen hundreds of cases like that When the dying bandit on the cross beside Christ's cross was converted. When Jerry McAuley, a ruffian graduate of Sing Sing prison, was changed into a great evangelist, so useful in reclamation of wandering men and women that the merchant princes of New York established for him the Water Street and Cremorne missions and mourned at Jus burial, amid the lamentations of a city. When Newton, the blaspheming sail or. under the power of the truth was brought to Christ and became one of the mightiest preachers of the gospel that England ever saw. • When John Bunyan. whose curses shocked even the profane of the fish market, was so changed in heart and life that he could write that wonderful dream, “The Pilgrim's Progress,” In such a way that uncounted thousands have found through It the road from the “city of destruction” to the “celestial city." In all these cases I think iron was made to swim. 1 worship the God who can do the impossible. You have a wayward boy. Only God knows how you have cried over him. You have tried everything for his ref ormation. Where is he now—in this city, in the country, or has he crossed the sea?” “Oh,” you say, “I do not know where he is. He went away in the sulks and did not say where he was going." You have about made up your mind that you will never hear from him again. Pretty hard pay he gives you for all your kindness and the nights you sat up with him when he was sick. Perhaps he struck you one day when you were trying to per suade him to do better. How different was the feeling of that hard fist against your face from his little hand in infancy patting your cheek! Fa ther! Mother! That is an impossible that I would like to see God take hold of, of the conversion of that boy, for he will never be anything but a boy to you, though you should live to see him fifty years of age. Did you say his heart is hard? How hard? Hard as stone? “Yes,” you say. “harder than that. Hard as iron.” But here is a God who can lift the soul that has been deepest down. Here is a God who can raise a soul out of the black est depths of sin and wretchedness. Here is a God who can make iron swim, the God of Elisha, the God of the young student that stood in dis may on the banks of the Jordan at the time of the lost ax head. Lay hold of the Lord in a prayer that will take no denial. STORY ABOUT THE WILLOW. Manliest Tree Known, ami the Kunlest to Grow. If you ask me to mention a tree most likely to live when planted by un skilled hands, says a writer in the Chautauquan Magazine, I would say a willow. 1 meai^the most common kind to be found in the northern states— the kind that stands beside and over shadows the roadside watering trough. If you have driven or wheeled over country roads a picture of such a com bination will readily come to your mind. The chances are that there is a local tradition connected with the origin of that tree. I have heard it in many different localities, with but Blight variation. The story usually runs something like this: "John Dee, one of the early settlers, was riding horseback along this road, then but a bridle path, and stopped at this spring to water his horse. He stuck his riding whip info the mud, it took root like a cutting, and the present patriarchal willow has been the outcome." The impres sion is common that willows will thrive only in wet places. It is true a willow is very comfort able in places where many other trees will suffer from chilblains, yet it will give good results elsewhere. livery One Need* a llobby. No man can retain his bodily and mental health if he devotes himself exclusively to business. Bodily he will become inert and flabby; mentally In ert and dull. First his power will di minish; then his grasp on practical problems will be relaxed; his capabil ity will be weakened and in the end his capacity itself disappears. The best results are foomd In varied inter ests. A hobby of some sort is neces sary. It has been the salvation of many. It is always better to tell the truth when you can get anybody to under stand your understanding of It. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON V. FEB. 2; ACTS 4: 1-12 THE FIRST PERSECUTION. Golden T«<t "Thtrf 1* Nonf Other Ksint Coder Heaven. Oiven Among Men, Whereby We Must He Saved-'— The Stone Whleh Was Set at Nought. I. The Apostles arrested and sent to prison.—Vs. 1-3. 1. "And as they" tI’eter and John) "spake unto the people" In Sol 'Wion's porch or cloister a pillared por tico open to the court of the temple, l’he well-known lunio man had been healed, and was stnndlng by the apostles, while Peter, taking the miracle as his text, had been preaching Jesus as the Messiah and Saviour. There was no little excitement about the matter. Peter was Interrupted In his speech. The priests were angry at the Interference with their functions of worship and teaching: and the Saddu cees, because the miracle and the preach ing were a flat contradiction of their re ligious opinions, and favored their ene mies, the Pharisees; and all because the growth of the new' sect would Interfere with their worldly interests and peace. Their power, their wealth, their dues from the temple sacrifices, would be reduced. "And they all laid hands on them. ’ Ar rested them. II. But the Work went on.—V. 4. Just as we have seen In modern missions, the attempts at opposition hut Increased the number of the disciples. III. Opposition aided the Cause by giv ing the Gospel a Hearing before Hie Rulers.—Vs. 5-7. The priests, rulers and leading men would not join the crowds, nor go to the places where the gospel was being presented. The only way to reach these classes was through a trial before those who were determined to crush the new teaching. "And when they had set them in the midst.’ The two apostles and the lame mail CV. 14). "They asked." By what magical power did you do this, and what right had you to use such power? They wanted to convict Peter and John of sorcery, by having worked a miracle net In the name of God. but of a crucified malefactor. They hoped to bring the apostle- uniter the awful death-sentence pronounced in the law (Dent. 13), which especially provides for the ease when the sign or the wonder comes to pass, fee also Kx, 22: 13; Lev. Hi: 26. It was of the utmost Importance to them that Jesus should not be alive again, and all their l rouble in putting Mm to death have been in vain. The fact of the cure they did not attempt to deny. IV. Deter preaontng me vtospei iu Sanhedrim.—Vs. 8-12. Note how Peti r lives up to his own precepts in his lust Kplstle (2: 12-17), to have your behavior beautiful, noble, becoming, among the Gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may. by your good works, which they behold, glorify God: and to honor all men. "This i« the stone which was set :it nought of you builders." The reference is to Hsa. 11$: 22. The Jewish rabbis have a tradition concerning on*- of the stones cut In a distant quarry for the temple of Sol omon, and brought to Jerusalem to find its place in the building. Hut it was of a peculiar shape, and though carved with figures of exquisite loveliness and grate, there was found no place for it, and the perplexed workmen thrust it one side. During the years the temple was build ing it became covered with moss and rubbish, and was the laughing-stock of the workmen as they passed by. Hut when the temple, shining in marble and gold, was almost completed, and the mul titude were assembled to witness the ded ication, inquiry was made for the top stone. the crowning beauty of the whole. They found it in this despised and neg lected. moss-covered stone. They cleansed it of its defilement, brought to light its beauty, lifted it to its place andd shouts of Joy and It became the crown and glory of the temple So it was with Christ. So It will be with the doctrines and prin ciples of Christ. So It lias been wltii many of his servants; the rejected martyrs and prophets have been crowned at last, and sing God's praises to golden harps. Illustration. Hurnlng Luther's Hooks. When I.uther's books were publicly burned by order of the Papal Nuncio, the remark made to the Kmperor Charles ministers was, "Do you Imagine that Lu ther’s doctrines are found only In those hooks that you are throwing into the lire? They are written where you cannot reach them, in the hearts of the nation. -D'Auhigne, bk. 8, chap. 11. "Neither is there salvation in any oth er.' Not only from disease and Ills of the body, as In the case of this lame man. bat from sin, spiritual disease, of which bodily disease was the type. "There Is none’ other nnmo." Name here stands for Jesus Christ himself, and ail there is in him of wisdom, power, love, divlne ness. There was no other power under heaven that could bate saved the Jewish nation from the destruction that came upon them thirty-five or forty years later, as there is no other power that can save each soul from sin ami death. V. The Outcome.-Vs. 13-31. First. The position of the disciples was unanswer able Two facts silenced their opponents. I The effect of Jesus himself on the ■haraeter of the disciples. These, men were unlearned and ignorant tv. 13), 1. e., without school training, and ungifted, "mere nobodies." And yet they had this marvelous power of logic, of eloquence, of healing. Jesus must have been a pow er. must still be, In order to produce such affects. 2. The other fact was the pres ence of the healed man himself (v. 14). This was an unanswerable fact. Facts are the most convincing arguments. Second. The Acquittal. -Vs. 15-22. In view of these facts, and the other fact lv. 21) that all the people glorified God for that which was done, the Sanhedrim dismissed the prisoners with a command to cease preaching Jesus. This the two apostles stoutly refused in do. and thus the trial ended in a vain threat. Dr. John Hall. In one of his sermons, compared the attacks of Infidelity upon Christianity to a strpent gnawing at a file. As lie kept on gnawing, he was greatly encouruged by the sight of the growing pile of chips, till, feeling pain and seeing blood, he found that he had been wearing his own teeth awa> against the tile, but the file was unharmed "The church Is an anvil which has worn out many hammers." Label). A casual visitor to a New York lithographer saw heaps of labels of European and Egyptian hotels, and expressed surprise that hotelkeepers should find it worth their while to send so far for their printing. "A little trade secret,” responded the proprietor, confidentially. “I supply dealers in secondhand trunks and hags with them. A well labeled bag It worth at least a dollar more.” This reminds us of the experience of a well known playwright who asked for a particular kind of hock at a New York wine merchant's. The ingen uous youth who chanced to he in charge at the moment went—not to the catalogue or to a bin—but to a drawer; and after a long search turned round, with apologetic manner, "I'm very sorry, mister,” he said, “but we are out of those labels.”—London Chronicle. Toy Army. An interesting gift has been added to the Musee de Arraee, Paris. In five great cases are placed 19,000 figures of soldiers about two inches high, all branches of the army being repre sented witli the utmost exactitude re garding uniform and arms. The toy army, marching past Napoleon, has for setting a village with the populace In the streets cheering the soldiers. This picturesque work occupied the lifetime of an old Alsatian who fought under the “Little Corporal.” WHAT SETTLERS IN SASKATCHEWAN VALLEY HAVE TO SAY. Formerly from the t'ulted 8UtM. Rosthern, July 8th, 1900. Frank Pedley, Esq., Superintendent of Immigration. Sir:—We, the undersigned settlers in Saskatchewan, Township 43, Range 6, beg to submit the following letter. We camo from Springfield, Bonhomme County, S. Dakota, in the spring of 1899, and settled where we now reside. We had considerable crop last year we put in on new breaking, and It was very good, and this year, 1900, our crop Is excellent. Our wheat will yield about twenty bushels to the acre, the oats and barley are also very good, and our potatoes and root crop all that could be desired. We consider this a fine country and are glad we came, as our prospects could not be better. A poor man will get a start in this country much quicker than in Dakota. We are. yours respectfully, John H. Schultz, H. A. Goshen. S. Gors, B. H. Dirks, C. D. Unry, P. Unry, and A. Ratzllef. All from South Dakota, U. S. A. A Hugo l>n t rnarlan. The centenary of Victor Hugo's birth, February 26 next, will be mark ed in Paris by the erection of an im posing monument. The Musee Victor Hugo and his old home on the Place des Vosges will be open then, with many relics and memorials of tho greut poet and romancer. Men always bow to fate, but not as a matter of courtesy. Itheumntlsm and JulinMn'i BOSS cannot agree. The former kills the latter e\ery time. Try it. All druggists. They are never alone that are ac companied with noble thoughts. Don't! for Women. Don’t keep the match box in a clos et. Don't fold nnlaundered curtains. Don’t cool tomatoes in the ice box. Don’t buy “cheap" lines as they are the dearest. Don’t use “cheap" soap in the laun dry as it costs the most. Don’t use a starch that will produce that harsh crackling effect, but go to your grocer and order Defiance Starch, 16 ounce package for 10 cents. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. Brooklyn N. Y.. Jan. 20.—For many years (Jarnrld Tea. the Herb Cure, haa been earning a reputation that la rare— It is UNIVERSALLY praised! This rem edy presents unusual attractions to those In search of health; it is made of HERBS that cure in Nature's way—by removing the cause of the disease; it Is PURE: It cleanses the system, purifies the blood and establishes a perfect ac tion of the digestive organs. It Is equally good for young and old. Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most like it least. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative liruiuu Quinine Tablets. Price25c. Age that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. GOOl) HOUSEKEEPERS Jse the l*?st. That’s why they buy Red Jross Ball Blue. At leading grocors, 5 cents. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Piso’B Cure is the best medicine we ever used tor ail affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. 0. Esdsi.by, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The secret of happiness consists in not a.'’owing your energies to stagnate. Tbe c. who boasts of being a cyn ic *4 hot ire«T <£angerous. Sirs. Winslow « erMhlng 'jnp. Forchlldren teett'n* gains, reduces ly gaimuatlou.alisy. j>»;n,cures wludo-'Uc. X>ce botll* If a woman is heartl#®* * is tne fftUlt of some man. PDTMAM FADELESS DYESarefasi to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. Few people would be satisfied if they got all that’s coming to them. KANSAS CROPS. The secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture has just tabu lated in comparative form statistics obtained from the U. S. Dfepartment of Agriculture year books. The tables are brief and graphic and calculated to surprise those who have looked on Kansas as a semi-arid state. Kansas ranks first in the value of wheat and corn raised for the five years 1896 to 1900, Inclusive, and also for the year 1900 alone; first in the value of wheat alone raised in 1900; fifth In the value of corn alone for the same period; second, in the value of wheat and corn raised In 1900 per capita. The same authority gives the number of bushels of corn raised in Kansas in 20 years a3 2,995,985.308, and the num ber of bushels of wheat raised in same period as 691,297,613. These are truly wonderful figures. In part they show the solid basis of value on which the securities of the Santa Fe railway rest, for the Santa Fe la to Kansas what the Pennsylvania railroad is to Pennsylvania, the chief transportation agency, with lines cov ering the state more generally than £o thorv of any other company. A new booklet on the resources of Kanoas is being prepared by the Santa Fe passenger department and will be r*».dy for distribution early in the fbar. Th'* booklet will contain statis tics for the year 1901. Fortunate is the man who falls only for the purpose of rising higher. THO.SK who have THIRD it will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal In Quuntity or Qual ity—Hi oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. It were better to sit by the wayside in joyful sunlight, than linger in dark shadows, though they be cast by a palace. Many a man who tries to be a ras cal finds he iB only capable of being a fool.
